Convenience Store Woman: A Novel
Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (translation)
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, & her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act & what they should say, & she copies her coworkers' style of dress & speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person.
However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, & has only few friends. She feels comfortable in her life, but is aware that she is not living up to society's expectations & causing her family to worry about her. When a similarly alienated but cynical & bitter young man comes to work in the store, he will upset Keiko's contented stasis--but will it be for the better?
Sayaka Murata brilliantly captures the...
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Jahr:
2018
Verlag:
Grove Atlantic
Sprache:
english
ISBN 10:
080216580X
ISBN 13:
9780802165800
Datei:
FB2 , 1.09 MB
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english, 2018